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 Do the researchers who conducted this study have any financial ties to the manufacturers of those vaccines? Have they received any speaking fees? Do they own stock in those companies? If so, this completely discredits their research due to obvious conflicts of interest. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: The journal Nature has published studies showing that 70 percent of the drug decision panels run in this country are rigged with decision-makers who have strong financial ties to the very drug companies whose products are affected by these decisions.
So much for evidence-based medicine. Drug approval decisions have little to do with evidence and everything to do with materialistic greed and cold, hard cash. That cash is doled out to decision-makers in the form of research grants, consulting fees and outright bribes. |
| What they did not tell you is that many of those panel members had strong financial ties to drug companies. They were being paid consulting fees or receiving research grants from the very companies that were affected by their decisions.
Once again, so much for evidence-based medicine. The only evidence that I'm finding here is evidence of a giant drug racket. There is ample evidence of corruption and collusion. In fact, the more you look at this industry, the more you realize just how deeply the American people have been conned. It's a giant scam. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Require, by law, that anyone who works for the FDA, advises the FDA or participates in FDA decision processes has no financial ties whatsoever to drug companies or medical device makers. No consulting fees, bribes, stock options or incentives. The people who make decisions about the safety of the drugs approved in this country should have no financial ties to the companies impacted by their decisions. It's common sense.
Pretty simple, huh? Five reforms that would restore some honesty and integrity to the FDA.
Protecting consumers from dangerous drugs is really not that difficult. |
Charles Barber
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 For an article on the antidepressant nefazodone, the authors' financial ties with the makers of the drug were so voluminous that listing them in full would have taken up too much space in the Journal. The editors were compelled to merely summarize the financial ties and list them in full on the Web site.86
And when it comes to being involved with money from the drug industry, psychiatry in particular is a main offender. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 From our point of view, having no financial ties to the companies we cover is a great luxury. It gives us the freedom to tell the truth, without getting our strings pulled by some outside entity who maintains financial control over what we say.
So keep those great products coming our way, and we'll do our best to evaluate them and share the best with our readers. Be sure to include a coupon code or offer code we can pass along so that our readers can enjoy special discounts for trying your product. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The drug approval panels, meanwhile, are deliberately and routinely stacked with decision makes who maintain strong financial ties to the very drug companies impacted by their votes.
And then there's the fraudulent practice of off-label prescribing, too, which means that a drug approved for ANY condition can be legally prescribed for ALL conditions, regardless of whether it has undergone a single test for those conditions. Example: A drug approved for migraine headaches can be legally prescribed for heart disease, even if it hasn't undergone a single clinical trial for heart disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Rigged its drug safety review panels with decision makers who have substantial financial ties to drug companies, even while refusing to disclose such blatant conflicts of interest.
Planned, organized, and took part in armed "SWAT-style" raids on vitamin shops, pet food stores, and even a church.
Knowingly approved harmful food additives for widespread use in the food supply (such as aspartame, which has a rather dubious history and has been proven toxic in several studies), even when its own safety experts recommended denying approval. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The people who make decisions about the safety of the drugs approved in this country should have no financial ties to the companies impacted by their decisions. It's common sense.
Pretty simple, huh? Five reforms that would restore some honesty and integrity to the FDA.
Protecting consumers from dangerous drugs is really not that difficult. The necessary reforms are easy to see. It's just that drug companies have their financial tentacles wrapped around so many legislators that real reforms are politically strangled to death before they have a chance to get voted on ("killed in committee"). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I have no financial ties whatsoever with the company and do not earn anything from the sale of this product. The FDA and AMA would strongly disagree with my opinions.
A wonderful anti-cancer meal is Juvo, which you'll find at www.GoJuvo.com
It contains numerous anti-cancer ingredients and is known in the alternative health community as the anti-cancer meal of choice. It's a great replacement for oatmeal or other hot breakfast cereals. (I eat it myself, even though I don't have cancer. It's just loaded with such good nutrition! |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The people on the boards of the major media, the officers, and the shareholders have major financial ties to the oil industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the fast food industry. They are using the media, including the news, to increase their wealth by brainwashing us into believing that only those products produced by the pharmaceutical industry, to which they have financial ties, can treat, prevent, and cure diseases like cancer. This is the big lie. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Instead: The selection process excluded persons openly expressing concern with GMOs; the selection process seated three pro-GMO activists, these three took the lead in composing three of the four main sections of the HC GMO Task Force Report; two task force members have direct financial ties to the GMO industry; the criterion for member selection has never been revealed even though numerous requests for this information have been made. |
Melody Petersen
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 But the thorniest problem lay in the tangle of financial ties between the industry and the academics leading these trials, a web that grew more complex every year. How could the university ensure that a professor, who had a lucrative consulting and speaking contract with a pharmaceutical firm, would keep an independent frame of mind as he performed a trial of that company's product? Could an industry-paid researcher keep the safety of human volunteers a priority and honestly report the results of the study, even if his corporate backer was not happy with what he found? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Furthermore, the bill deepens the financial ties between Big Pharma and the FDA while doing nothing of substance to end corruption at the FDA or to halt Big Pharma's monopolistic trade practices in the United States. Thus, the bill is widely viewed by most people in the health freedom movement as a net loss to consumer safety, which is why grassroots opposition to S.1082 has steadily grown.
What's clear from the Senate's action on the bill is that consumers are not in any meaningful way represented by lawmakers. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration in 1991 reviewed the data and concluded that Prozac was safe, though critics point out that several of the panelists had financial ties to Lilly.
They also note that other internal documents show that Lilly excluded 76 of 97 cases of reported suicidality from the data.
Lilly did not immediately respond to that report, though the scientist involved in the reclassification of some of the cases defended doing so, saying that a review of the cases showed they were not suicide attempts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Rick Perry -- who was revealed to have financial ties with Merck, the vaccine manufacturer -- mandates the vaccine in teenage girls (see http://www.newstarget.com/021572.html ). A key Merck lobbyist named Mike Toomey, it turned out, had served as Gov. Rick Perry's chief of staff.
The Texas decision to mandate the vaccine was a notable and troubling milestone in public health policy because it is the first time a vaccine is mandated for a disease that cannot be contracted through casual contact in public schools. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today I've published a special report (click here to read it now) that offers a detailed, third-party review of the Amazon Herb Company from a truly independent perspective (meaning that I'm not an employee or associate of the company, and I have absolutely no financial ties with them, either. I don't even get paid to speak at their events). |
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 We earn nothing from the sale of Azmira products and have no financial ties.
I've called Dr. Newman several times and found her and her staff to be incredibly knowledgeable, polite and highly motivated to help improve the health of pets everywhere. Please have patience with them, however. They have more calls than they can easily handle. You may spend time on hold or need to call back later. Please respect their time, as they are providing a much-needed service with the phone consultation. |
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 FDA while deepening the financial ties between the agency and drug companies. The law effectively surrenders America to a system of medical tyranny under which a criminally-operated FDA will continue to promote pharmaceuticals, censor nutritional education and discredit alternatives that threaten drug company profits. Nothing in the new law protects consumers' access to dietary supplements or natural medicine.
Got a law? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Click here to read more about the ACS and its financial ties to chemical companies, pharmaceutical companies and radiology equipment manufacturers.
The cancer industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and I've written extensively about the criminal organizations that protect and promote the industry. Just about everything the public is told about cancer by these cancer institutions is a lie. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 FDA is doing such a great job that they are about to reward the agency with even more money, expanding its powers and deepening its financial ties with Big Pharma. The bill in question (click here for the story) is being renamed on practically a daily basis. It started as the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, was renamed the FDA Revitalization Act of 2007, and has just now been transformed into the Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007.
Does it all seem bewildering? A little too much to track it all? |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 It turned out that six of the eleven committee members, including the chairman, had financial ties to the food industry.
In my opinion, the Department of Agriculture, which by definition is supposed to protect and promote the nation's agricultural interests, should disqualify itself from responsibility for setting nutrition standards. That duty belongs more properly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
Melody Petersen
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| Jennifer Robinson, an associate professor in the College of Public Health, listed her financial ties on an educational website for medical professionals in 2006: "Jennifer G. Robinson, MD MPH has openly disclosed that s/he: has grant/research support from
Pfizer, Merck/Schering Plough, Hoffman La Roche, Astra Zeneca, Wyeth Ayerst, Bristol Myers Squibb, Atherogenics, Proctor and Gamble, Glaxo-SmithKline, Sankyo and Abbott [sic]; and has resolved all relevant conflicts of interest." She did not explain how she had "resolved" all these conflicts.
In 2005 Dr. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Braughman says, "the Drug Enforcement Administration learned of financial ties between Ciba-Geigy, the manufacturer of Ritalin, and CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), a supposedly neutral parents' organization that was telling distraught citizens that ADHD is a disease and that Ritalin is essentially not addictive. Ciba-Geigy had given CHADD over a million dollars. The international narcotics control board expressed concern about CELADD's active lobbying for the medical use of Ritalin in children. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Today, a third of academic clinicians have financial ties to either the drug or the device industry, though nobody (except the companies themselves) has any idea how much money actually changes hands. Some, though not all, of them really are thought leaders—chairs of departments, winners of prestigious prizes. The more illustrious the thought leader is in his field, the more indispensable he is to his industrial sponsor's marketing efforts. Academic thought leaders defend their financial conflicts of interest, arguing that their opinions aren't for sale, that their integrity can't be bought. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In 1994 and 1995, researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital surveyed more than 3,000 academic scientists and found that 64 percent of them had financial ties to drug corporations. According to the report, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 20 percent of the 3,000 researchers actually admitted that they had delayed publication of research results for more than 6 months, to obtain patents and to "slow the dissemination of undesired results. |
Charles Barber
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| And more than half of the psychiatrists involved in developing the 1994 edition of the DSM had financial ties to drug companies.88
One can argue that financial self-interest is influencing medicine to its core, in the very defining of how to practice medicine. Almost two-thirds of the doctors who frame the formal guidelines of clinical best practice have received funds to conduct research, and more than a third have worked for pharmaceutical companies as employees or as consultants. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| The editorial failed to mention to readers that the writers had financial ties to fen-phen's manufacturers. In a subsequent editorial, New England Journal editors Marcia Angell and Jerome Kassirer bemoaned the authors' failure to disclose their financial relationships, noting that Manson and Faich's conclusion, that fen-phen's benefits outweighed the risks, was just the sort of practical summary the journal wanted—if only the experts offering it had not had a conflict of interest. The fact that the authors were paid consultants, they wrote, "raises troubling questions. |
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